Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, with about 700 yearlings up for auction, turfmen expect some $2,000,000 to change hands. Largest group, as usual, will be those from the famed Claiborne and Ellerslie studs (59 this year), owned by Kentuckian Arthur B. Hancock, biggest commercial breeder in the U. S. Next largest group will be 44 put up by Willis Sharpe Kilmer, another famed breeder who, unlike Hancock, keeps some of his stock for racing under his own silks. A small string, however, that always commands attention are the dozen or so offered each year by the Belair Stud of Collington...
Then Owner Woodward selects half of the crop to be sold at Saratoga, keeps the other half for racing. From the racing group he chooses four to be sent to England, to become acclimatized to English weather and accustomed to English tracks ?under the guidance of the celebrated British trainer, Eton-bred Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, at his famed Freemason Lodge at Newmarket. The rest of the crop is sent to Long Island, entrusted to the loving care of Trainer Fitzsimmons, ablest...
...days of Dr. James Monroe Smith as head of Louisiana State University, a Federal Grand Jury in New Orleans charged last week, a ruthless group of five politicos sold L. S. U. the Bienville Hotel for $575,000, lock, stock & barrel, then sold the hotel fixtures again to the University for another...
Purpose of the meeting was to weld the scattered defense leagues into a national pressure group with a program of slum clearance, Government rent control, increased legal responsibilities for landlords. Although the Labor Party lawyers' Haldane Club supplies it with free legal advice, no political party except the Communist has yet taken official notice of the Federation...
Arrow, published by an anonymous group of journalists of whom the leader is grey-haired, pink-faced Fred Voigt, one of the ablest newspapermen in England and a close friend of Sir Robert Vansittart, famed Foreign Office careerist. Printed on a hand press in an Old Gloucester Street basement, Arrow comes out on Friday, helps to fill the weekend gap in British news. Its policy: ''England must be strong...